Fomba Trawally is a former refugee who had to leave school to support his siblings. Now his import company is one of the biggest in Liberia.
The firm is named after his mother, Kumba Beindu, a woman who had no formal education and sold peppers and aubergines in order to feed her children.
When she died in the 1980s, Mr Trawally, her eldest son started selling shower slippers in a wheelbarrow.
But when civil war broke out in 1989, he had to flee to The Gambia as a refugee.
At the end of 1991 he returned home and- with $25 that he had saved and $120 that he got from a Malian friend- he started his business, Kumba Beindu and Sons.
"In just one year's time we were able to grow up to $3,000... and now we have businesses all around the country," he told the BBC's series African Dream.
The company imports plastic products, shoes and cosmetics from countries such as China, the United States, Turkey and neighbouring Ivory Coast.
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